The Sad Saga of Allison Stokke
Some people don’t want to be famous, and some people definitely don’t know how to turn their fifteen minutes of fame into fortune.
How a vaulting ambition catapulted an athlete to unwanted internet fame
This could also be titled: You always run the risk of internet fame if you post yourself on youtube.
“But then she made the “mistake” of posting a three-minute interview about her technique on the internet video site YouTube. Within days, pictures of her, innocently taken at a track-and-field event, were on the internet and being leered at by tens of thousands of men all over the world on websites that have nothing to do with sport. The attention has become so great that Miss Stokke, 18, now locks the doors and avoids leaving her house alone. Her father, a lawyer, checks the internet every night for potential stalkers. She has even had to enlist the services of a media adviser to fend off hundreds of requests for photographs and interviews. “
Here is a link to a typical Allison Stokke is smoking hot thread that seems to be the cause of so much anguish for Allison and paranoia for her father.
Allison Stokke interview and from what I can tell, the video that started it all.
Allison Stokke: Nuova star di internet
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